Where is the Person?

John Wheeler, whose website, http://www.thenaturalstate.org/, I have referenced before, asks a few very pointed questions in the following missive:

"Where is the person? Is it real? Did you ever find it? For example, in any given moment there may be a few thoughts, feelings or sensations appearing. Do any of those constitute a person, a separate self ? They are simply momentary objects appearing and disappearing in present awareness. How could they be a substantial self or independent person? If you set those aside and continue to investigate, you will find that there is nothing else present at all to investigate! All there is, is wide open, clear, obvious presence-awareness itself. And that is not a limited person or entity."

I am reminded of Osho's recommendation that we ask not so much "Who am I?" but "Where am I?" Where indeed is the person we take ourselves to be? Nasargadatta says simply, "You are not a person." And of course Buddha 2,500 years ago denied the reality of a self. The Buddhist tradition also teaches us that "There is suffering, but no one who suffers." Again, no self. Hmmm.